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cried aloud, like tine people in the streets,
FOR establishment, because it seemed to
them that II was solomon himself Ill the
beauty aud strength of his youth, who
stood before them. But the young man
bore himself mOdestly and made obeisance
TO the King, and when he had caused
presents To be brought, he asked leave to
speak, and said 20 King, am Menelek,
the son of solomon the Great and Queen
Sheba of Abyssiuia, from which country
D have ] come, bringing gifts to thee, and
DESTROYS of seeing the great and. glorious
4 Temple which the kjug my father caused
\ to be built and his Palace and all his
\ glory, and then to return in peace into
4 mine own country, If it please the King
I To suffer me to depart
; And it was done ~ he asked. and the
! King entertained him cautiously, all
. his following, for thirty days. And at
| the end of that time the Prince Menelek
would depart Therefore, the King or
| dered all manner of precious things TO be
given to him, in order to show his friend
| ship and goodwill toward his brothers,
| and among the gifts thus prepared was u
copy, so exact that you could not tell that
| it WAS not the original, of the Ark which
is in the temple, and 1t contained exact
copies of all that was in the ARK. And
| here, the AbyssinianS say, a strange thing
| happened, for there was in the Temple a
| priest named Isaac, man stricken in
|
| the hidden things. The priest, by much
conversation with Menelek, fell into so
| great an affection for the young man that
nothing would do but he must 90 back to
| Abysslnia with him, he and all his house
| Nay, so greatly did he love him, partly
because he was the son of solomon, his
master, and partly because he was good.
| ly youth, and one who loved 10 talk OF
| things hidden from the multitude, that he
did strange and wonderful thing, OF
| which the Jews to this day are ignorant.
| For, by he power of the Hidden Way, he
he threw charm over the watchers and
| guardians of The Temple, 20 that they
slept, OF rather go thai they saw, but saw
| not, and jan the morning had forgotten,
for they walked to and fro in their watch
| rs If they were awake, aud challelEeu
each other and called the dawn, and sang
| the morning Psalms, while with his sons
this old priest brought into the Temple
lmitationHf the Sacred Ark and exchanged
it, taking away with him the al Ark and
| leaving Ia its place that which mad been
made Tor Meneek. And this, they say,
would have been impossible in the NE
time of tie King, partly because his ser
wants, the Jinns, who day and night
for him in and about the Temple, would
! have prevented 1t, and partly because the
| Shecbinah above the Ark, which lett 1t
when solomon died, you'd have blinded
those who touched II, They brought away
|
stone, aud laid it on camel, covered with
a carpet, and led lit away with Mehelek
| and his train when he lett Jerusalem
And the old priest took with him secret
ly the Book of the Wisdom of the Great
King, the loss of which was never suffer
ed to be known unto the people unto this
day aud many of the Jews went with
him because they would rather serve
| Meuelek than Rehoboam; and their de-
scendants, who are now called Falashas,
remain in the land of AbysSnia to this
day, worshippiug after the manner OF
their ancestors. And to this day the Ark
itself is in the hands of the Abyssinian
King And the Book of Wisdom, by some
called the Book of the Hidden Way, aud
by others the Book of the Ancient Way
is in the hands of that priests descend
ants to this day. This Book is our Book
this Wisdom is our Wisdom; the descend
ant of the priest, Isaac, is my master
Isak the Faash, called Isak Ibn Menelek
and the Ancient Way is the Wisdom OF
King Solomon himself"
There were four women listening to this
story. Three oistham, like Queen DIDO
lreurts. To them already this young mal
was an infal ible Prophet, before whom
they were cOntented to surrender what
ever of judgment, reason, and crltlca
faculty they possessed. Is it wicked
mean in the modern sense-to advance
|
devoid of the critical faculty. Less than
four and twenty hours had sutiiced tc
make this Young man the master of these
three women. That he had not also be
come the master OF the fourth was solely
due to the extraordinary dislike witt
which this girl regarded all pretenders tt
supernatural covers, so that at the very
aspect and first appearance Of one she
hardened her heart and stitfened her soul
But with regard to the others Herr Pau
lus came and conquered His victory was
due to his appearance and his manner,
almost as much MS TO the exhibition OF
his powers Ii he had been the tobacco
reeking German they expected, badly
dressed and badly hammered, uncouth and
| vulgar his powers would have been &C
kuowledged but there would nave been
no enthusiasm for him.
1T WAS from Isak," Herr Pdulus con
tinued, that | learned all | know. 1t l.
he who continues to teach me. am il
conversation with him every moment
even now, while | am speaking, | an
receiving messages Of instruction anc
support"
ooh! it is wonderful" Cicely muir
INJURED. "Anu have seen my brother !"
Sibyl looked furtively at the man who
dared to talk like this. Many men had
come to that house and talked. Many
pretentious assertions had been made in
every one she had recognized some old
familiar stroke, some familiar stage bust
ness, and in everyone there was at bottom
the commercial element. Here the Tau
guage and the pretentious were equally
new to her, and the commercial element
was-so far-wholly wanting. She har
deued her heart with resolution and
looked at him again. His eyes met herr
with astrangeiy searching and command
inS look. Then sensation fell upon her
one quite new and terrifying; she fell
her brain oyershadoWed RS if by cloud
she was drawn toward this man as if by 4
rope il was bya desperate effort that she
seemed to snap that rope and to drive
away the cloud from her brain. Again
she met his eyes and this time he turned
away.
"1here are many women," he said, ''as
there are many men, who cannot, if they
would, tread this path There are Others
"a few-who have the gifts but refuse tC
use them.
"They know, while they are free" said
Sibyl, what they are and what they do
They know not what may happen to them
when they have surrendered their freedom
and their will"
ooh r' murmered Lady Augusta, set